Part 21 -Crying wolf

'Maybe I should have ran when I had the chance' I thought to myself as I was being hit at almost every angle by Shadow's chaos spear attack. Twitching, I tried to pull myself out of the remains of a smashed up wall. My body felt heavy and to out of shape to push no less breathe from where I lied.
"You should have sticked to running, at least you would have had a chance that way" He chuckled placing the heel of his shoe to my lap, cringing as he pressed his foot down hard where my manhood was.
"S-s-shadow stop ! That really h-hurts" I wined only wishing he could get this over with.
"Why would I stop ?. I love watching you in pain !" He raised his foot then slammed it on my area, making me scream on impact, tears rolling down my eyes at how incredibly painful this was becoming.
"Look at you all weak.. What happened to that so called power you had ! If you were smart you would have used it by now"
"Maybe he can't control it Shadow" Blaze smirked and walks my way, her being here only made me feel more weak than I was. I sniffled hard trying not to pour with tears.
"I didn't pay you to point out the obvious.. now start the flame, we're burning this place down"
"Y-y-your going to burn down the school !" I stared trembling at the two ex friends of mine who had no second thoughts about doing so and with Shadow's new found twisted mind he'll probably burn the school down with me still inside it.
"Don't act so surprised Silver, I've planned this from day one.."
"P-planned what.. k-killing me ?" I choked trying to back away from him. He grinned and pulled me up by the collar of my neck, staring deep into my eyes with his deadly set of ruby red ones.
"You were only one of the many mistakes in my life that have now damned me to hell.. And now I shall fix you.. I'll fix all of this world for what it has done to me ! with my power I'm immortal, stronger than any so called god of your's !"
"Shadow... You're in pain... just tell me why... I could help, why don't chu trust me..."
"Silvy there's no use fixing something you didn't break.. you'll only make things worse for you.." Blinking we turned our eyes to the very person that came from.. Grayson...
"Huh ? Ohh so your one of Silver's friends.. Well then I'll enjoy destroying you in front of him !" Shadow smirked evilly as he threw me aside to deal with Grayson.
"Grayson no ! Get out of here, you're going to get hurt !" I cried forcing myself to stand, my legs wobbly from being hit not to long ago. Grayson didn't look at me, he didn't answer back. All he did was look at Shadow with the stare of a man not afraid of death.
"Grayson..." I never seen him like this before, he was always the one to joke around and bring life back to someone if they felt down but now I knew that this Grayson and the one I knew where on to different sides of the same coin. A smiled formed on his face, He taunted Shadow with fearlessness and stood there and laughed.
"What's so funny ! I'm the ultimate life form ! " Grayson stopped laughing and smirked at his ebony prey.
"I thought death would look scarier then you, what a let down" new found rage boiled in shadow as red static flickered off of his body.
"I will show you.. THE MEANING OF FEAR !" He growled, jumping at Grayson as he smashed his now static fist into Grayson missing his face as it hit his shoulder instead, the static burning through Grayson's shoulder blade opening up an old flesh wound.
"GRAYSON !" I shouted heading over to him but was stopped by Blaze blocking my way.
"Silver it's okay.."
"Huh ?" Shadow flinched realizing Grayson wasn't as badly effected as he wanted him to be.
"W-what is this ! Why aren't you in pain !" Shadow beckoned but was cut off by a right hand cross to the face, his body knocked across the ground as it skidded against the many yards of tile he broke into 'S-s-such strength... b-b-but how... wait.. I saw this before... when he threw Sonic into the air after being called a girl.. I thought that was my eyes playing tricks on me.. can it be he has powers too..?'.
"In case you're wondering why it didn't hurt look closer" He smirks and pointed to his shoulder blade which I was shocked to see metal.
"My last bastard husband loved stabbing things.. one day he stabbed me so hard it completely ruined my shoulders from the inside out so a doctor fought about making me better shoulder blades then before.. they are completely robotic and is water, blood, fire and static prove and in no time at all skin grew over it.. As painful as that was having the doctor to reattaching and connecting my arms to my new shoulders I couldn't feel better.. they even make me three times as strong as I was before.. Which reminds me I may have to thank the good man, doctor Robotnik after this" He grinned walking over to Shadow's body where he lied there to stunned to get back up.
"Is this guy s-s-s-some type of demon !" He freaked getting back up, his body starting to shiver with every step Grayson took to get closer to him.
"Demon ? Aww I thought death wasn't afraid of anything ?"
"I.. I'm not afraid of you !" Shadow scowled picking himself off the ground. Grayson came in closer till he was only inches away from him, that's when I saw a smirk formed on Shadow's face 'IT'S A TRAP !'.
"Now Blaze !" He commanded, the purple cat jumping out from in front of me, her hands lit up as fire formed within her palms.
"HAaaa !" She shouted throwing the fire ball directly at Grayson's back, too her surprise bounces back at her hitting her straight in the chest with the same force she used to throw it.
"AAAAHHHHhhh !" She screamed hitting the ground hard, her head hitting the floor as she lost consciousness. Blinking nonstop I couldn't believe what I was seeing but now that his vest and bandages were burned through, I saw his back had a metal spine.
"Did I forget to tell you I had my spine broken too ? well the doctor fixed that as well but it's still very painful there unlike my shoulders" He hissed a bit as he could smell his burnt bloody skin.
"A-any other metal parts I don't know about Grayson" I asked still surprised that I never knew this to begin with.
"Only one other" He smiled, round house kicking Shadow in the chest, Shadow's ribs breaking on impact as he flew all the way across the school hall.
"Unlike my shoulders and spine where my bones had to be replaced I had to replace my whole right foot.. Pretty neat huh ? Honestly the doctor thought of everything" He smirked but that didn't stay long as the ground started shaking. A malicious laugh was heard from down the hall where static energy spiked everywhere, the air turning red as the laugh came closer and closer.
"Play time is over.. Time to step it up" Shadow reappeared, standing strong as if he wasn't just beaten up like a rag doll 'and to think he thought Grayson was the demon...'.
"Silver ! I want you to leave.. This might get ugly, take her with you if you don't want to see her die !" Grayson beckoned but at this point I knew as well I had to leave. Grabbing onto Blaze I was not strong enough to carry her in my arms so I placed one of her arms over my shoulder as I dragged her to the nearest exit.
"Why...after all I've done.. why are you helping me..." She asked faintly still weak from that attack.
"I know you were only doing as told.. If you needed money that bad to hurt someone you barely knew or even try to kill them, you must have had a good reason in the long run or you wouldn't have done it in the first place.." I told her, pushing the exit doors open as I dragged her out into the open.
"You... your smarter than I thought.." She smiled going back to her tired state. I smiled back at her, For this was the Blaze I once knew as my friend.

-_- Back inside the school were the fight was going on -_-

Taking off the golden rings on his rists, Shadow's body glew with red static, his power more than doubling as the school shook from the inside out.
"Wittness my true power !" The red light became brighter as he crossed his fist's together.
"Chaos !" Grayson stood there watching a smile forming on his face.
"BLAST !" All of Shadow's stored energy came out in one swift blow as the whole school was destroyed by a red chaos explosion. This move alone could kill hundreds of people if out in the open but something was different this time other than the fact Shadow was hurt.. Standing there in the middle of the attack, speechless the ebony hedgehog feel dripples of water leave his eyes.. Tears.. Why was he crying..? There before him, in the middle of his rage filled out burst he felt the other male wrap his arms around him in an embrace. Shadow sad to say wanted to know what a hug felt like in a long time.. To know that he wasn't alone and that all he ever wanted was to cry without anyone to question why.
"I won't hold you back from crying, I won't even question you as to why.. If this pain is too much for you to take then let me share it with you.." Cried the neon blue haired coyote holding onto the now shaking ebony hedgehog who now hugged back tightly crying his heart out.. Time became normal again, the school became nothing but burning ash.. all that remained inside the charred remains where the bodies of the two boys...